Fire destroys vacant mobile home

Published: April 29, 2004 8:00 PM

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A fire that destroyed a vacant mobile home on Piedmont Road that was being used for storage is being called suspicious by Cambridge firefighters. The cause of the blaze early Friday morning remains under investigation.Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 4:27 a.m. after multiple reports were received by the Guernsey County Sheriffs Office and Cambridge Police Department reporting a fire on top of the mountain visible from Interstate 70.Eight Cambridge firefighters in two trucks responded to the scene on Piedmont Road and extinguished the fire with water from an engine and tanker.The mobile home, reportedly owned by Larry Mitchell, of Cambridge, was a total loss, as was the contents.